All is not well in Westeros, the fictional continent in HBO’s crazy-popular series, “Game of Thrones.”

HBO says that one or more hackers grabbed a GoT script, and possibly copies of two episodes that are scheduled to air in August.

“HBO was the victim of a major cyberattack -- with echoes of the Sony hack that reverberated through the cybersecurity industry just a few years ago,” said Kevin O’Brien, chief executive officer of GreatHorn, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm.

“ Unlike many recent security stories that have become part of the international consciousness, where hospitals, airports, and critical infrastructure went offline, this attack appears to be limited to HBO.

“As with similar incidents in the past, the motivations here appear to be to gain notoriety, rather than financial gain; similar attacks have been reported against Disney and Netflix of late. In an era of hyper-connected corporate infrastructure, protecting against the loss of sensitive data cuts across all industries, however; HBO, as with many large media organizations, has a critical set of information assets to protect and motivated attackers who seek to gain illicit access to it.”

THe hack annoyed Stephen Cobb, a senior researcher in the San Diego office of ESET, the security company.

“As a keen fan of Game of Thrones I am particularly disappointed by this latest example of digital intellectual property theft; but let's be clear who is ultimately responsible here, the criminal hackers who committed this despicable act,” Cobb said Monday.

“I also think it is time to start holding our government responsible for failing to commit the resources required to exercise swift justice against cybercriminals. As long as criminal hacking can be perpetrated with relative impunity, misguided individuals will continue to violate the law to the detriment of society.”

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